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During the course of our own
research, we have regularly undertaken free look ups of Parish Registers at
Records Offices as well as from our own
collection of microfiche. In addition, we have transcribed thousands of other
parish register entries and have now extended this into an "Online Parish Clerk" (OPC) project which has been
successfully run in several counties.

What this means is that as well as
transcriptions completed by ourselves, we will also include entries from
volunteer transcribers. Links to other transcription web sites will also be
included as it seems a waste of energy to duplicate the great work already
completed by others. We will also incorporate Village and Parish history
and photographs. This is an entirely self financing project and we are
paying for the hosting of what is a considerable amount of data on our
knightroots web-space.

Please read, important notice

These online transcripts are
created from microfiche, purchased from or viewed at Records Offices and are
subject to copyright. Hampshire Record Office are fully aware of
and
support the OPC Project. Transcriptions are placed here for personal research ONLY and no
fee is payable. Please do not copy any of this data if you are a commercial
researcher or organisation. No person or organisation may publish this data
without express written permission.No
guarantee can be given as to the accuracy of the data due to illegibility of the
original records and microfiche copies. It is vitally important that ANY
transcription is verified wherever possible by checking the parish register
fiche or film. Alternatively, check other sources and we recommend purchasing
the Baptism, Marriage & Burial CD's produced by the
HGS. Some of these records are
available online at the FFHS
Website

HOW CAN YOU HELP?This OPC exists solely for the benefit of Hampshire researchers such as
yourself and the following are ways to assist the Hampshire OPC
Project:

1. If you have a fiche reader (or access to one), you can buy parish register fiche from Hampshire Record Office
to transcribe. As little as 30 minutes a week (more if you can
spare the time) will make a good contribution. You may be able to choose a
parish (or part of one), unless it has already been
allocated. The transcriber gets full credit and copyright for the work. Alternatively, if you are near an LDS Family History
Centre, you can transcribe from films there or from fiche at a local
Record Office or Archive if accessible. If you are able to take part, we will
send full transcription instructions and will allocate a parish to you. If you
have a preference for a particular parish, please let us know.

2. Alternatively, as the project is self funding
and if you feel you do not have sufficient time to transcribe or access is diffficult, fiche
could be donated and we will arrange for someone else to do the transcription. You
would then get the credit as donor/supporter of the particular parish. You may
be able to dedicate the transcription to an ancestor who lived in that
particular parish. Please contact us prior to purchase, to avoid duplication.
Credit would be given to both the donor and the transcriber